Sept. 01--Delta Air Lines, according to Bloomberg, is offering to give corporate customers travel credits should its on-time performance fall behind that of American and United. Like United's ever going to let that happen.
Columbia University President Lee Bollinger set off a social media frenzy at convocation when he spoke of soon welcoming back the New York school's most famous alum. It's assumed he meant President Barack Obama. Then again, Amelia Earhart left in 1920 after a semester.
An Iranian reformer was arrested shortly after a news conference in which he thanked Iran's president for allowing greater political openness. Irony doesn't get much more Iran-ish.
Tokyo's 2020 Olympics organizers need a new logo. Their first was deemed too similar to that of a Belgian theater. This embarrassment follows runaway costs forcing them to abandon their original stadium plan and start over. Seems their 2020 vision has blind spots.
NBC's announced revival of the 1989-97 sitcom "Coach" has been scrapped. The plan was to resume the Craig T. Nelson series' storyline 18 years later in order to ... well, no one really knows.
Google has introduced a new logo. Why? Apparently it hadn't quite found what it was searching for either.
A Broadway-bound "SpongeBob SquarePants" stage musical is set for a trial run in Chicago next summer. It should be a real test. Starfish and squid typically don't fare well in freshwater communities.
Apple is reportedly poised to follow Netflix, Amazon and others that stream video into the original programming business. If Apple's shows are no good, it will have you download updates to "improve" them every few days until you finally delete them in frustration.
"CBS Evening News With Walter Cronkite" expanded to 30 minutes 52 years ago Wednesday. President John Kennedy told Cronkite the United States could advise and support "the people of Vietnam against the communists," but "it's their war. They're the ones who have to win it or lose it."
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